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“Good” cops become automatically bad just by failing to police their own. One single openly bad cop is enough to make ALL of them bad. They have way too much power to be allowed one single abuse, let alone a systematic persecution of poor people.

There’s an extremely powerful backdoor in every processor/chipset. Intel named it “Management Engine” and AMD “Secure Technology”.

From the Wikipedia page on Management Engine:

The ME has its own MAC and IP address for the out-of-band management interface, with direct access to the Ethernet controller; one portion of the Ethernet traffic is diverted to the ME even before reaching the host’s operating system.

ME has Serial over LAN, so it’s possible that attackers can have a more intimate access to your hardware than your Operating System.

I imagine other manufacturers have similar frameworks.

Full article.

Yeah, it’s really great journalistic work. The authors talked to a lot of people to get their side of what happened.

He’s really just that brain damaged. A couple of weeks ago I read a book about his takeover of Twitter and even his day-to-day behaviors are completely unhinged. He is surrounded by sycophants and weirdos and has lost touch with reality years ago.

The book is “Character Limit” by Conger and Mac.

He’s also the only appointee who’s sharing his power with someone else. Ramaswamy and Musk will not work well together.

I said basically the same the article says a couple of days ago and was pelted with a gazillion negative votes. Centrists are averse to learning from mistakes, otherwise they wouldn’t be centrists.

My argument would be that individual actions are useless or even harmful. Collective, smart action is required. This problem is bigger than any one of us but not bigger than every one of us.